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A People Without a Country: The Kurds and Kurdistan
Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group, Incorporated

For almost a century, the Kurds—one of the world's largest ethnic groups without its own state—have been deceived and double-crossed, their language and culture suppressed, Fifty years ago the Syrian government stripped citizenship rights from 20 percent of its Kurdish minority—Kurds make up about 10 percent of that country's population—creating between 300,000 and 500,000 stateless people. Under Saddam Hussein's countries such as Iraq. Slowly, important pieces of the puzzle start to emerge. €�We have no minorities in Turkey,” declares the district governor of Varto. 3 days ago - She also said: “We repeat and emphasize again that there are many common points between the Kurdish parties, on which you should focus on. Apr 18, 2014 - Western Kurdistan refers to the fact that if the Kurdish people had their own country in areas where they are most populous, the Syrian Kurdish areas would make up the west of a Kurdish nation. Jan 1, 2014 - Under those circumstances, the recent appearance of a series of fiction and nonfiction works which in different ways try to confront the real history of the country's mainly Kurdish southeastern regions has come as a surprise. There are always stories to tell, oblique or incomplete as they may be. Aug 27, 2013 - kurds-kurdistan-turkey-iran-syria-iraq. There are no brotherly fights, as some people spread this information. May 21, 2014 - By the time Paul Bremer, head of the Coalition Provisional Authority left in 2004, 100 regulations and orders were implemented that paved the way for opening the country to free trade and a large privatization campaign. Oct 24, 2008 - The Kurds are a large ethnic group of about 25 million people who have always lived in the same region, and who trace their roots back to the Medes of ancient Persia (the frontier of what is now Iraq, Iran and Turkey) more than 2,500 years ago. Soon after the implementation of these policies, However, the Kurdish region that had already implemented its governing structure since the establishment of a no-fly zone in 1991 remained relatively safe. For these assaults, the Iraqis mustered up to 200,000 soldiers with air support -- matched against Kurdish guerrilla forces that numbered no more than a few thousand. Jun 26, 2013 - It was the year when every Kurd from Kurdistan, northern Iraq, was fighting for his freedom against a regime that did not think twice about slaughtering its own people. Having mastered the English language, there is still only one phrase that comes to mind that captures my sense of gratitude towards the military for saving my country and for saving its people from the most violent criminal, and that is 'Thank You!'. One of the men driving the diggers working on the trench says those on the “They closed the border without any prior warning,” Shaukat Barbharri, who is in charge of the Saemalka border crossing, says.